Western Sahara is emerging as a case study on the ... some brandished Polisario flags, ... Spain was ready to relinquish what was then called Spanish Sahara. The colony was a 103,000-square ...

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

Western Sahara is the territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco in the north, Algeria and Mauritania in the east and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, is the only African territory whose post-colonial status has not been resolved. The UN considers it a “Non-Self-Governing Territory”. Morocco controls ...

Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony believed to have considerable offshore oil deposits and mineral resources, in 1975, sparking a conflict with the pro-independence Polisario ...

Saharawi Agaila Abba weighs in on the history of Western Sahara and Morocco relations as UN envoy Christopher Ross renews efforts to break a decades-old ...

Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony largely controlled by Morocco but claimed for decades by the Algeria-backed ...

The Western Sahara is a “territory in the process of decolonization” according to the U.N. It was a Spanish colony until 1975, ... US and Moroccan flags next to a US State ...

For nearly 50 years, the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara has been disputed territory in northern Africa, claimed by Morocco but fought over by an Indigenous independence movement supported ...

Western Sahara, formerly a Spanish colony, has been under occupation by Moroccan and Mauritanian forces since 1975 following Spain’s withdrawal based on the Madrid Accords. The accords have not been ...

Analysis - Western Sahara is the territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco in the north, Algeria and Mauritania in the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. A former Spanish colony, it ...